A History of Photography. From 1839 to the Present (Bibliotheca Universalis)

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In the beginning there used to be light
Photography all the way through the ages

George Eastman’s career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the vital important industrialists in American history, and a an important innovator in photographic history.

Eastman died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind on the earth, containing over 400,000 images and negatives – among them the work of such masters as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Ansel Adams.

Home also to 23,000 cinema films, five million film stills, one of the vital important silent film collections, technical equipment and a library with 40,000 books on photography and film, the George Eastman House is a pilgrimage site for researchers, photographers and collectors from everywhere the world. This volume curates the most impressive images from the collection in chronological order to offer an incomparable overview of photographic history.

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